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Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

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These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology. Deborah DiSanzo is president of Best Buy Health for Best Buy Co. This first installment of responses looks at data privacy concerns.

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The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good 

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The Pandemic Treaty (or other legal instrument) scheduled for discussion at the World Health Assembly in the fall of 2021 should focus on establishing the norm that the IP and knowledge needed to develop and produce essential pandemic health technologies become global public goods. and German governments in particular.

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Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Activists anticipated the rise of vaccine, therapeutic, and testing nationalism — with rich countries securing preferential access to COVID-19 medical technologies and preventing export to other countries even before they had been approved — and the press soon followed.